She was probably murdered and put in the same cemeteries as the warriors to hide the crime. Or, she protested the killing of her warrior husband/lover, and killed as an example to others that might be thinking the same way as her.
A five-foot warrior woman is a ridiculous assumption.
She may have just been the type of gal you see around male groups sometimes such as biker groups, nutty, brash, annoying, some level of alcoholism, when a guy is drunk she is available for sex, impossible to drive off so she kind of hangs around and tries to make herself useful and stay out of trouble.
If you look closely at some of the Western females that the media glorifies they were like that, not very desirable, sometime hookers, tough in an alcoholic chick way that prefers hanging out with the guys, easily cowed by the men she hangs out with.